Table-slide



(No Model.)

L. S. EDLEBLUTE.

Y TABLE SLIDE. v No. 363,219. Patented May 17, 1887.

- UNITED STATES PATENT LUGIUS S. EDLEBLUTE, OF SHEBOYGAN, VVISOONSIN.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 363,219, dated May 17, 1887.

v Application filed July 17, 1886. Serial No. 208,236.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, LUOIUS S. EnLnnLUrn, a resident of Sheboygan, Sheboygan county, Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Table-Slides, of which the following is a specification.

The obj ect of my invention is to provide a slide for extension-tables which shall be cheap, durable, and reliable, the advantages of which will be apparent from the following description.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, Figure 1 is a perspective View of my improved shuttleblock, showing the position of the slits or cuts. Fig. 2 is a view same as Fig. 1, with rubber or other elastic material inserted in the slits or cuts. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of one slide-section, showing the position of the end block and pin 1). Fig. 4 is a perspective View of the other slide-section, showing the position of the end block and the shuttle-block when the sec tions are drawn out to their full extent. Fig. 5 is a section taken through the two slide-sections, and through the shuttle -block at the line as w of Fig. 1, the same being together in working position.

My invention consists, principally, in the novel construction of the shuttle or sliding block or tongue, and is adapted to be used in connection with the ordinary slide-sections having the usual dovetailed grooves.

The adjacent slide-sections A have fixed in opposing ends the dovetailed blocks B, which fit into and are secured from sliding (preferably by being glued) in the dovetailed groove in the respective slides.

The shuttle-block G is formed on two of its faces to fit the configuration of the dovetailed grooves in the slide-sections. This block is made from tough timber, and is made elastic in the following new and novel manner: Each block has preferably two horizontal saw-cuts made about three fourths the length of the block, the one cut, 0, entering from one end of the block, and the other out, G entering from the other end of the block, thus leaving a thin partition, 0 between these cuts for about onehalf the length of the block, which partition, being composed of a tough timber, will admit of the block being elastic or adjustable vertically to take up loss (No model.)

by wear or shrinkage. The two dovetailed faces of this. block are made, respectively, to fit snugly the respective grooves in the two slide-sections. This block is placed in the grooves between the two end blocks, B, and when the two sections are moved will create a slight friction, not so much as to interfere in any way with the sliding of the sections, but sufficient to prevent any looseness or rattling of the sections when operated. One shuttle-block is sufficient for two slide sections. If desired, a piece of rubber or other elastic material, D, may be inserted in the slits or cuts, as shown in Fig. 2. These cuts are conveniently made by a saw. The pins b are preferably present, and when this is the case the free part of the end blocks, B, which slides in the groove of the adjacent section, is, when pins 1) are present, made slightly narrower than the groove, and is made slightly thinner than the depth of the groove, in order to pass the pin b.

The end blocks, B, are for the purpose of guiding the sections, and afford a stop when the sections are drawn out. When the sections are closed, the pin 1), which extends preferably about one-sixteenth of an inch from the face of the groove, will pass the end block, but will engage the shuttle-block and carry it back to near the center of the slidesections.

In slides as heretofore constructed the adj ustable blocks are made rigid in the grooves at or near the ends of the sections, whileiu my device I need employ but one adjustable block for two slide sections, thus cheapening the manufacture.

What I claim as new and of my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a table-slide, the adjustable shuttleblock 0, having slits or cuts, as 0'0 and partition G", substantially as set forth.

2. In a table-slide, the adjustable shuttle block 0, having slits or cuts, as GO, partition C and elastic material, as D, placed in said cuts, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

LUCIUS S. EDLEBLU'IE. 

